Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, Inc.

Founded in 1966 by Anne Romaine and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project (SFCRP), based in Nashville, Tenn., worked to present traditional musicians from black and white cultures in performance together at a time when this was considered controversial. The SFCRP continued presenting musical performances throughout the South until the late 1980s, keeping close ties with the civil rights movement.

From the description of Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, Inc., records, 1965-1989. WorldCat record id: 30485730

Founded in 1966 by Anne Romaine and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project (SFCRP) worked to present traditional musicians from black and white cultures in performance together at a time when this was considered controversial. The SFCRP continued presenting musical performances throughout the South until the late 1980s and kept close ties with the activism of the civil rights era.

The organizational records of the SFCRP are almost entirely the work of musician and historian Anne Romaine, the organization's only director and administrator. From her base in Nashville, Tenn., Romaine, who died in 1995, worked to organize the many programs of the SFCRP, seek funding from institutions, and keep track of its financial records. At its height in the mid-1980s, the organization routinely ran two lengthy musical performance tours a year, sponsored the Tennessee Grassroots Days in Nashville, and had its hand in many other local projects and concerts. Other projects of note that Romaine worked on under the auspices of the SFCRP were the opening of Alex Haley House Museum (she was writing Haley's biography at the time of her death) and the co-production of Carry It On, a nine-part television special about traditional American music aired on PBS.

From the guide to the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Collection, 1965-1989, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.)